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Extension of the Periodic Table

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IN the course of an investigation concerning the behaviour of orbital objects around a nucleus, in which the properties of various simple theoretical models were studied to determine under what conditions the exchange of radiation and/or particles obeying the “inverse square law” could account for other interaction laws (not necessarily only at the nuclear or atomic level), the following series was found:

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SMITH, S. Extension of the Periodic Table. Nature 211, 1085–1086 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111085b0

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